Fluffy St Patricks Day Slime Recipe for Kids To Make Homemade Slime!

This lucky leprechaun got to make a fresh batch of our homemade fluffy slime this week! If you haven’t made fluffy slime then you are in for a real treat. If you have already made fluffy slime then you know how awesome homemade slime is! Today we bring you a brand new theme, a fluffy St Patricks Day slime recipe! Glitter, leprechauns, gold coins, and more!

FLUFFY ST PATRICKS DAY SLIME RECIPE FOR KIDS!

Fluffy slime is an amazing texture that you have to try at least once. It starts out a bit messier than our other basic slime recipes, but the end result is fabulous!

Mounds of fluffy shaving cream make for a light as air texture. However, just like our leprechauns on St Patrick’s Day, this slime won’t stay quite as fluffy for very long!

LET’S GET STARTED WITH OUR FLUFFY ST PATRICK’S DAY SLIME RECIPE!

Check out the slime supplies needed below and then click over to our HOW TO MAKE FLUFFY SLIME RECIPE page to see a cool video, written instructions, and photo steps!

Come back here and see how much fun we had with this St Patrick’s Day fluffy slime!

EXTRA SLIMY RESOURCES

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Slime is easy to make, but it’s important that you read the directions, use the correct ingredients, measure accurately, and have a little patience if you don’t succeed the first time. Remember, it’s a recipe just like baking!

SLIME FAILURES

The biggest reason your slime fails is not reading through the recipe! People contact me all the time with: “Why didn’t this work?”

Most of the time the answer has been lack of attention to supplies needed meaning not reading ingredients, not reading the recipe and notes, and not actually measuring the ingredients!

So give it a try and do let me know if you need some help. On a very rare occasion I have gotten an old batch of glue, and there is no fixing that!

I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. Usually we use a reusable container either plastic or glass. If you keep your slime clean it will last for several weeks. And…if you forget to store your slime in a container, it does actually last a few days uncovered. If the top gets crusty just fold it into itself.

If you want to send kids home with a bit of slime from a camp, party, or classroom project, I would suggest packages of reusable containers from the dollar store. For large groups we have used condiment containers as seen here.

NOTE: fluffy slime stores exactly the same way and our last batch has lasted us quite awhile. The texture even after the air has gone out is also pretty cool! It’s thicker but squishy.

Stretchy, fluffy, squishy, and totally amazing is how you can best describe our fluffy St Patricks Day slime recipe!

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE FLUFFY SLIME RECIPE

What’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the slime activator {sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid} mixes with the PVA {polyvinyl-acetate} glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state.

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and is thicker and rubberier like slime!

Picture the difference between wet spaghetti and leftover spaghetti the next day. As the slime forms the tangled molecule strands are much like the clump of spaghetti!

Why is fluffy slime so fluffy? And who doesn’t fluffy slime stay fluffy! It all has to do with the one extra ingredient, foam shaving cream. The cream has air pumped through it as it is dispersed from its container. This air will remain in the slime for only so long.

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You will find everything you ever wanted to know about making homemade slime right here, and if you have questions, just ask me!

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